I.
noun
1 sight, hearing, etc.
ADJECTIVE
▪ acute , developed , good , keen
▪
Raccoons have a highly developed ~ of touch.
▪ poor
▪ sixth
▪
He has a sixth ~ when it comes to fashion.
VERB + SENSE
▪ have
▪
He has an acute ~ of smell.
▪ lose
▪
She lost her ~ of hearing early in life.
▪ heighten , sharpen
▪ dull
▪
The drink must have dulled your ~s.
▪ appeal to
▪
Art should appeal to the ~s rather than the intellect.
SENSE + VERB
▪ tell sb
▪
When she came to, her ~s told her she was lying on a beach.
▪ reel , swim
▪
Her ~s reeled as she fought for consciousness.
SENSE + NOUN
▪ organ
PREPOSITION
▪ through the ~s
▪
Although he can't see, he learns a lot through his other ~s.
PHRASES
▪ the five ~s
▪ the ~ of hearing , the ~ of sight , the ~ of smell , the ~ of taste , the ~ of touch
▪ an assault on the ~s
▪ the evidence of your ~s
2 feeling/awareness of sth
ADJECTIVE
▪ deep , great , keen , overwhelming , palpable , pervasive , powerful , profound , strong , tremendous
▪
He felt a deep ~ of relief after the phone call.
▪
a palpable ~ of danger
▪
They feel a pervasive ~ of loss and longing.
▪
We felt a profound ~ of alienation from Western culture.
▪ genuine , real , true
▪ basic , underlying
▪ clear
▪
He lacked a clear ~ of direction.
▪ growing , heightened
▪ new-found ( esp. AmE ), renewed
▪
Many felt a renewed ~ of purpose in the nation's war effort.
▪ general , overall
▪
Aromatherapy is said to help foster a general ~ of well-being.
▪ shared
▪
We have a shared ~ of community.
▪ inner
▪ slight , vague
▪
a vague ~ of unease
▪ nagging
▪
Patti had a nagging ~ of foreboding.
VERB + SENSE
▪ experience , feel , have , possess
▪
I experienced a new ~ of freedom.
▪ gain , get
▪
I got the ~ that she wasn't very pleased to see us.
▪
Readers gain a real ~ of what life was like in the camp.
▪ display , show
▪ convey
▪
The music conveyed a ~ of loss.
▪ bring , give sb , provide
▪
The conviction may bring a ~ of closure.
▪ create , develop , foster
▪
Clubs try to create a ~ of community.
▪ keep , maintain , retain
▪ lose
▪ lack
▪ heighten , sharpen
PREPOSITION
▪ ~ of
▪
He seems to have lost his ~ of reality.
PHRASES
▪ a false ~ of security
▪
The public has been lulled into a false ~ of security.
3 understanding/ability to judge
ADJECTIVE
▪ good , great , wonderful
▪
She had a great ~ of style.
▪ bad , poor
▪ innate , intuitive , natural
▪
a natural ~ of justice
▪ moral
▪ business , dress , fashion
▪
He has no dress ~.
▪
I have absolutely no fashion ~.
VERB + SENSE
▪ have
PREPOSITION
▪ ~ of
▪
a good ~ of direction
▪
a poor ~ of rhythm
▪
a great ~ of timing
4 sensible or practical reason/judgement
ADJECTIVE
▪ complete , perfect
▪
It all makes perfect ~ (= is easy to understand) .
▪ good
▪ common , horse ( esp. AmE )
▪
Common ~ tells me I should get more sleep.
▪ business , economic , financial
▪
Family-friendly policies make good business ~.
▪ intuitive , logical
▪
These results seem to make intuitive ~.
VERB + SENSE
▪ have
▪
He at least had the ~ to call the police.
▪ display , show
▪ lack
▪
Meg is incredibly intelligent but she lacks common ~.
▪ make
▪
This paragraph doesn't make ~.
▪ see
▪
I tried to make him see ~, but he just wouldn't listen.
▪ talk
▪
If you can't talk ~, I'm leaving!
PREPOSITION
▪ ~ in
▪
There's a lot of ~ in what he's saying.
PHRASES
▪ have more money than ~ ( esp. BrE )
▪ make little ~
▪
It makes little ~ to discuss this now.
▪ (not) an ounce of ~
▪
If you had an ounce of ~, you'd never have agreed to help him.
▪ knock some ~ into sb , talk ~ into sb ( esp. AmE )
▪
I'm going to try and knock some ~ into him.
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We'll try and talk a little ~ into her.
▪ there's no ~ in sth
▪
There's no ~ in going home before the concert.
5 your senses normal state of mind
VERB + SENSES
▪ come to , regain
▪ take leave of
▪
Have you taken leave of your ~s?
▪ bring sb to
6 meaning
ADJECTIVE
▪ broad , loose , wide
▪
The novel is about education in its widest ~.
▪ certain
▪
In a certain ~, justice was done.
▪ limited , narrow , strict
▪ full
▪
This is a tragedy in the fullest ~ of the word.
▪ accepted , classic , conventional , traditional
▪
I am not writing poetry in the traditional ~.
▪
These teachings do not constitute a religion in the conventional ~.
▪ general , ordinary , usual
▪
I don't have any friends in the usual ~ of the word.
▪
Literacy, in a general ~, cannot be said to cause social development.
▪ meaningful
▪
He and I were no longer friends in any meaningful ~.
▪ negative , positive
▪ practical
▪ figurative , metaphorical
▪ literal
▪ legal , technical
▪ spiritual
▪ pejorative
VERB + SENSE
▪ have
▪
That word has three ~s.
PREPOSITION
▪ in a ~
▪
In a ~, she's right.
PHRASES
▪ in every ~ of the word , in a very real ~
▪
In a very real ~, post-war repression was the continuation of the war.
▪ in the true ~ of the word
II.
verb
ADVERB
▪ immediately
▪
I immediately ~d something was wrong.
▪ clearly , strongly
▪
He clearly ~d that some points could be scored.
▪
I ~d very strongly that she was angry with me.
▪ dimly , vaguely
▪ almost
▪
Sandra could almost ~ the tension in the air.
▪ just
▪
Maybe she could just ~ what I needed.
▪ apparently
▪
She apparently ~d defeat was inevitable.
▪ intuitively
Sense is used with these nouns as the object: ↑ apprehension , ↑ atmosphere , ↑ confusion , ↑ danger , ↑ disappointment , ↑ disapproval , ↑ disbelief , ↑ discomfort , ↑ distress , ↑ disturbance , ↑ emotion , ↑ frustration , ↑ hesitation , ↑ hint , ↑ hostility , ↑ impatience , ↑ magic , ↑ mood , ↑ movement , ↑ nervousness , ↑ pain , ↑ presence , ↑ relief , ↑ reluctance , ↑ sadness , ↑ tension , ↑ unease , ↑ vibration